Languages in Finland, 1990-2024

List of minority language spoken in Finland, years 1990-2024

Background:
Top 15 languages (by population) → black background with yellow text.
Other languages → white background with black text.

The most spoken languages in years 1994 and 2004 by rank in 2004
Language Rank 1994 Rank 2004 Population 1994 Population 2004 Change in rank Change in pop
Russian 1 1 13 728 37 253 0 23 525
Estonian 2 2 8 157 13 784 0 5 627
English 3 3 5 009 8 345 0 3 336
Somali 4 4 3 566 8 096 0 4 530
Arabic 7 5 2 531 6 589 2 4 058
Albanian 9 6 1 896 4 808 3 2 912
Kurdish 12 7 1 147 4 757 5 3 610
Chinese 8 8 2 020 4 172 0 2 152
Vietnamese 5 9 2 657 4 031 -4 1 374
German 6 10 2 567 3 898 -4 1 331
Turkish 10 11 1 695 3 278 -1 1 583
Persian 16 12 750 2 790 4 2 040
Spanish 11 13 1 288 2 688 -2 1 400
Thai 17 14 725 2 650 3 1 925
French 14 15 953 1 889 -1 936
Serbo-Croatian 15 16 775 1 357 -1 582
Polish 13 17 1 115 1 351 -4 236
The most spoken languages in years 2004 and 2014 by rank in 2014
Language Rank 2004 Rank 2014 Population 2004 Population 2014 Change in rank Change in pop
Russian 1 1 37 253 69 614 0 32 361
Estonian 2 2 13 784 46 195 0 32 411
English 3 3 8 345 16 732 0 8 387
Somali 4 4 8 096 16 721 0 8 625
Arabic 5 5 6 589 14 825 0 8 236
Kurdish 7 6 4 757 10 731 1 5 974
Chinese 8 7 4 172 10 110 1 5 938
Albanian 6 8 4 808 8 754 -2 3 946
Persian 12 9 2 790 8 103 3 5 313
Thai 14 10 2 650 8 038 4 5 388
Vietnamese 9 11 4 031 7 532 -2 3 501
Turkish 11 12 3 278 6 766 -1 3 488
Spanish 13 13 2 688 6 583 0 3 895
German 10 14 3 898 6 059 -4 2 161
Polish 17 15 1 351 4 459 2 3 108
French 15 16 1 889 3 736 -1 1 847
The most spoken languages in years 2014 and 2024 by rank in 2024
Language Rank 2014 Rank 2024 Population 2014 Population 2024 Change in rank Change in pop
Russian 1 1 69 614 102 487 0 32 873
Estonian 2 2 46 195 49 563 0 3 368
Arabic 5 3 14 825 43 534 2 28 709
Ukrainian 22 4 2 436 38 850 18 36 414
English 3 5 16 732 36 971 -2 20 239
Somali 4 6 16 721 26 891 -2 10 170
Persian 9 7 8 103 22 154 2 14 051
Chinese 7 8 10 110 19 264 -1 9 154
Albanian 8 9 8 754 19 072 -1 10 318
Kurdish 6 10 10 731 17 953 -4 7 222
Vietnamese 11 11 7 532 16 129 0 8 597
Turkish 12 12 6 766 12 964 0 6 198
Tagalog 19 13 2 618 12 661 6 10 043
Thai 10 14 8 038 12 355 -4 4 317
Spanish 13 15 6 583 11 804 -2 5 221
German 14 19 6 059 7 932 -5 1 873
Polish 15 22 4 459 6 442 -7 1 983